I won an argument I had with my girlfriend about how she forgot something important to me. She said I was right, but I was a jerk too for forgetting about how the harshness of my words eroded her self-esteem.
I won an argument I had with my mother about how she should tell people they are wrong without humiliating them. She said I was right, but I was a jerk too for making her feel stupid and unappreciated.
(more…)Prof. Subash C. Mishra taught me one of my most important lessons at IIT Guwahati. And he did it outside the classroom.
I had written a dramatized story in a student magazine about the Battle of Saraighat. Prof. Mishra sent me an email saying he really liked the story and wanted to talk to me about it.
(more…)“You can hear her too, can’t you?”
The woman under the tree pulled herself closer to the trunk and frowned at me. She was scared, of course, because I was a complete stranger to her.
I took a step forward, tapped the trunk of the tree and said again, “She talks to you too, doesn’t she?”
The woman didn’t say anything, but she kept looking at me with the same suspicion she usually reserved for stray dogs.
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Minakhi Misra